Labouring Under the Misapprehension

His Majesty’s Coroner for Manchester North has last week issued a Preventing Future Death report to the College of Policing and the “RCRP Strategic Board” after the death of a woman by suicide in Manchester. Katie Overd was a vulnerable woman in her 40s who was usually housebound as a wheelchair user. She had a […]

Update: Mental Health Bill

The Mental Health Bill 2025, introduced to the House of Lords last autumn, has now completed its passage through the House of Commons, having had its third reading earlier this week. It now returns to the House of Lords for some final “ping-pong” so it’s not quite over yet. I’ve always been focussing on the […]

Make Sure & Always Respond

Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired an episode on Monday evening about problems within the ambulance service having placed a journalist to work undercover as a 999 call handler in the south of England. The programme is generally worth watching: I think we learned some things about how matters are managed we didn’t know before, but […]